Ahmadabad: The All India Christian
Council has alleged an attack on Christians in Dahod on August 25. A press
release said that women officials and children from th IP Mission
orphanage at Jobat village in Madhya Pradesh were on their way for a
picnic at Kali dam in Dahod, when they were attacked by the Bajrang Dal
and the VHP a well as by the police. When the children were washing their
faces at a hand pump, Bajrang Dal and VHP activists surrounded them, took
the keys of their jeeps and allegedly beat up women with sticks. The
orphanage officials went to the local police station, where instead of
registering a complaint, the policemen allegedly beat up the women and
asked them to leave Dahod immediately.q